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Three weeks after boasting about her engagement to boyfriend William "Willie" Wilkerson, the Queen of Soul has put the brakes on her wedding plans.

"Will and I have decided we were moving a little too fast," Aretha Franklin said in a statement Monday. "There were a number of things that had not been thought through thoroughly."

What she had thought through quite thoroughly was the ceremony itself. Shortly after New Year's, Franklin told the media that she was considering a summer wedding in Miami, a Vera Wang (or Valentino or Donna Karan) dress, and a reception on a private yacht.